The Red Ribbon

Taien Ng-Chan - Writer, director & editor. 2004.
Premiered at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival 2004.
Also screened at the Regent Park Film Festival 2005 and the Vancouver Asian Film Festival 2005. Now available on Roadmaps, the accompanying CD-ROM to Taien's book Maps of Our Bodies.

Won the Location Michel Trudel Award for Best Poetic Filmmaking at Concordia University, 2004.

SYNOPSIS

According to an old Chinese fairytale, the god of love and marriage unites lovers by tying their feet together with a red ribbon. This is the story of a young woman who, early one morning, wakes up to find a red ribbon tied to her foot, and follows it to see what she'll find at the other end...

Tech Specs

Original Format: 16mm colour         Release Format: DVD (NTSC)

Length: 4 minutes  33 sec.               Image: Colour

Sound: Mono                                      Aspect ratio: 1:33

Original version: English                  Year of Production:   2004

Credits

Produced, Written and Directed by:     Taien Ng-Chan

Cast:          Reena Almoneda Chang, Joey Dubuc

Narration: Taien Ng-Chan

Crew:          Matthew Forbes, Joe Ollmann

Camera and Editing: Taien Ng-Chan

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